Cities worried about federal disaster response plan.(Federal Emergency Management Agency)(United States. Department of Homeland Security)
Nation's Cities Weekly, September, 2007 by Wollack, Leslie
State and local officials and some members of Congress greeted a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) draft update of the plan for coordinating disaster preparedness and response with skepticism and dismay last week at a heating before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Federal Buildings and Emergency Management. Critics of the plan object because it does not take Congressional reforms of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) into account.
The draft National Response Framework released by DHS provides guidelines for coordinating federal and intergovernmental responses to national emergencies and was mandated by Congress last year.
"We are deeply troubled that the critiques of the plan we are...
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